She joined New York Senator Chuck Schumer - her second cousin once removed - to call for gun control at the press conference.

"We're here to say enough is enough," he said. "We can't just sit back and allow mass shootings to become commonplace... How many breaking news flashes will it take for Congress to act?"

Amy Schumer added that the gunman, who had a history of mental illness, "shouldn't have been able to put his hand on a gun in the first place."

"The critics scoff and say, 'Well, there's no way to stop crazy people from doing crazy things,' but they're wrong," she said. "There is a way to stop them. Preventing danergous people from getting guns is very possible."